linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] xfs: update dir3 leaf block metadata after swap

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Date:   Wed, 29 Nov 2023 19:46:14 +1100
From:   Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Jiachen Zhang <zhangjiachen.jaycee@...edance.com>,
        Chandan Babu R <chandan.babu@...cle.com>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>,
        Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>,
        Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@...cle.com>,
        Zhang Tianci <zhangtianci.1997@...edance.com>,
        Brian Foster <bfoster@...hat.com>, Ben Myers <bpm@....com>,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        xieyongji@...edance.com, me@...x.top
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] xfs: update dir3 leaf block metadata after swap

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 10:34:09PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 10:15:52AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > +	/*
> > > +	 * Update the moved block's blkno if it's a dir3 leaf block
> > > +	 */
> > > +	if (dead_info->magic == cpu_to_be16(XFS_DIR3_LEAF1_MAGIC) ||
> > > +	    dead_info->magic == cpu_to_be16(XFS_DIR3_LEAFN_MAGIC) ||
> > > +	    dead_info->magic == cpu_to_be16(XFS_ATTR3_LEAF_MAGIC)) {
> > 
> > a.k.a.
> > 
> > 	if (xfs_has_crc(mp)) {
> > 
> > i.e. this is not specific to the buffer type being processed, it's
> > specific to v4 vs v5 on-disk format. Hence it's a fs-feature check,
> > not a block magic number check.
> 
> We have these magic based checks in quite a few places right now,
> so I'm not surprised that Jiachen picked it up from there..

Yes, but that doesn't mean the magic number check has been used
correctly here.

That is, we use the magic number check when the code has a
conditional on the type of buffer being processed (i.e. what block
type are we operating on? e.g. DANODE vs LEAFN as is checked a few
lines further down in this code). When the conditional
is "what on-disk format are we operating on?" such as when we are
decoding headers or running verifiers, we use xfs_has_crc() because
we can't trust magic numbers to be correct prior to validation.

Hence we use xfs_has_crc() to determine how to decode/encode/verify
the structure header, not the magic number in the block.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com